Managing Software Process Evolution

About the Editors:Marco Kuhrmann is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, where he heads the software engineering section. He holds a Ph.D. and a habilitation in computer sciences from the Technische Universität München, Germany. His research is focused on software process & quality management and agile engineering.Jürgen Münch is a Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Reutlingen, Germany, and a Research Director in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research in software engineering is focused on product management, lean analytics, rapid value delivery, innovation processes, and agile engineering. He regularly supports companies to improve their product strategy and product development. He has been awarded the IFIP TC2 Manfred Paul Award for Excellence in Software Theory and Practice, and the Distinguished Professor Award FiDiPro of Tekes.Ita Richardson is an Associate Professor at the University of Limerick in Ireland and a Principal Investigator in Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre.  She holds a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Limerick. Her research is focused on software process improvement, global software development, software quality in healthcare and connected health.Andreas Rausch is Professor for Software Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Clausthal. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Technische Universität München. His research is focused on software architecture, modeling, and software processes for the development of reliable and long-living software systems.He (Jason) Zhang is Professor at the Software Institute of Nanjing University, China. He was awarded a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. He joined academia after seven years in industry, where he had developed software systems in the areas of aerospace and complex data management. He does research in software engineering, in particular software processes (modelling, simulation, analytics and improvement), empirical and evidence-based software engineering, service-oriented computing, and software engineering research methodologies.

“This book focuses on the evolution of software processes and presents different aspects of it, including design, development, management, governance, and application. … I enjoyed reading this book. It is well structured and well balanced around applicability to industry, industrial experience, and academic rigor. … A practitioner will enjoy the range of presented topics. … I truly enjoyed reading the book.” (Alexandre Bergel, Computing Reviews, April, 2017)

• 1. Low Ceremony Processes for Short Lifecycle Projects.- 2. The Right Degree of Agility in Rich Processes.- 3. Assessing Product Development Agility.- 4. Value-driven Process Management.- 5. Are we Ready for Disruptive Improvement?.- 6. Trials and Tribulations of the Global Software Engineering Process.- 7. The Route to Software Process Improvement in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.- 8. Managing Software Process Evolution for Spacecraft from a Customer’s Perspective.- 9. Modeling Software Processes Using BPMN: When and When Not?.- 10. Software Processes Management by Method Engineering with MESP.- 11. Adapting Case Management Techniques to Achieve SoftwareProcess Flexibility.- 12. A Researcher’s Experiences in Supporting Industrial Software Process Improvement.- 13. Lessons Learned from Co-Evolution of Software Process and Model-Driven Engineering.- 14 Monitoring and Controlling Release Readiness by Learning across Projects.- 15. The Effects of Software Process Evolution to Technical Debt—Perceptions from Three Large Software Projects.